Author: Katherine Connelly
Date: 29 November 2022
Type: Video
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Katherine Connelly gives a brief history of the Paris Commune, its impact on Karl Marx and the lessons we can take from Marx’s pamphlet Civil War in France at Counterfire’s Marxism in a Day event

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Katherine Connelly

Kate Connelly is a writer and historian. She led school student strikes in the British anti-war movement in 2003, co-ordinated the Emily Wilding Davison Memorial Campaign in 2013 and is a leading member of Counterfire. She wrote the acclaimed biography, 'Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire' and recently edited and introduced 'A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change'.

Katherine Connelly gives a brief history of the Paris Commune, its impact on Karl Marx and the lessons we can take from Marx’s pamphlet Civil War in France at Counterfire’s Marxism in a Day event

Help fund the fight for socialism

Katherine Connelly

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